Finland Top 4 Brands : 1970-79

The Fiat 127 was popular in Europe

Without a home brand, things are often more fluid. This is certainly he case with Finland with four top brands in the ten years considered here. Fiat was never below second over this decade, but otherwise it was in constant flux.

In 1973, 118,000 cars were bought which was the best year. Way back then Nissan was Datsun and that marque was top by 1979. However, the economy faltered in the late 70's and sales were down to 80,700 in 1978.

Year	1st		2nd		3rd		4th
1970	Ford	13,172	Fiat	10,139	Toyota	9,248	VW	8,392
1971	Fiat	12,734	Toyota	9,047	Ford	7,799	Datsun	5,885
1972	Fiat	13,002	VW	10,840	Ford	10,730	Datsun	5,687
1973	Fiat	15,517	Toyota	15,442	Ford	14,035	VW	9,142
1974	Fiat	12,553	Ford	10,599	Saab	10,408	Toyota	9,311
1975	Fiat	12,254	Saab	15,172	Datsun	11,448	Ford	10,975
1976	Saab	12,855	Ford	9,904	Datsun	9,832	Lada	8,260
1977	Saab	11,183	Fiat	9,409	Ford	8,914	Datsun	8,653
1978	Saab	10,272	Fiat	8,409	Datsun	8,376	Lada	8,165
1979	Datsun	13,484	Fiat	10,847	Lada	10,141	Saab	10,141

Data source: Thanks to Autolan Tiedotuskeskus.
For other decades: 1956-59, 1960-69, 1980-89, 1990-99, 2000-09. and 2010-19.

The Toyota Corona enjoying the snow